Alumni

PhD 2023

Dissertation: People Have the Word: Experiments with Voice in Polish Documentary, 1960 – 1984

Alina Predescu (Film & Media PhD 2023) works on questions of ethics and aesthetics in documentary and nonfiction film. Her research explores concepts of ethnographic representation in nonfiction film, forms of perfomativity present in documentary film, and the interview as a performative device of nonfiction film. She received an M.A. in Film Studies from San Francisco State University, a B.A. in Audiovisual Communications from National...

PhD 2021

Dissertation: “Resources of Perception: Visuality and Power at the U.S.-Mexico Border”

Diana Flores Ruíz was a Mellon Mays Dissertation Fellow and received her PhD in Film & Media at Berkeley with a Certificate in Global Urban Humanities. She holds a BA from Duke University in Women’s Studies and Arts of the Moving Image. Her dissertation research on the US-Mexico border investigates developments in epistemic seeing across visual technologies, from photography’s role in nineteenth century cartography up to contemporary virtual reality surveillance,...

PhD 2021

Dissertation: “Moving Images/Modern Policing: Silent Cinema and Its Afterlives”

Althea Wasow is a 2020 Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellow who completed her Ph.D. in Film & Media and Critical Theory at UC Berkeley in 2021. Her dissertation analyzes the ways in which the emerging institutions of modern policing and motion pictures corroborated and subverted each other’s projects in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She has presented her work at Lüdwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, the UC Berkeley Center for Race & Gender, SCMS...